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<br />Regional Director
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<br />Savery-Pot Hook Project, Colorado-Wyoming (BR)--
<br />U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Position Statement
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<br />This memorandum briefly summarizes the impacts which the Savery-
<br />Pot Hook Project would have on fish and wildlife resources and
<br />habitat, and sets forth the position of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
<br />Service. It has been prepared under the authority, and in accordance
<br />with the provisions, of the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (48 Stat.
<br />401, as amended; 16 U.S.C. 661 et seq.). This Position Statement will be
<br />supported in greater detail in a report developed in cooperation .lith
<br />the Colorado Division of Wildlife and the Wyoming Fish and Game
<br />Department. This report is in the final stages of preparation.
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<br />The Savery-Pot Hook Project, authorized for construction by Public Law
<br />88-568 (September 2, 1964), lies in the Little Snake River drainage
<br />and straddles the Colorado-Wyoming border. The Little Snake, a major
<br />tributary of the Yampa River, flows through the project area in a
<br />westerly direction, generally along the State line. The dominant
<br />purpose of the project is the provision of irrigation water to 32,250
<br />acres of land almost equally divided between the two states. This
<br />includes full water service to 17,920 acres of presently nonirrigated
<br />land (much of it not presently under any kind of cultivation) and sup-
<br />plemental water to 14,330 acres of currently irrigated land. Approxi-
<br />mately 20,000 acres of publicly ow~ed land (9,000 Federal; 9,000 State
<br />of Colorado; 2,000 State of Wyoming) would be acquired for project
<br />development and would be sold to individuals for settlement of new farms
<br />and enlargement of existing farms.
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